bestmicrofiction 2022

The following stories have been chosen by final judge Tania Hershman to appear in Best Microfiction 2022. Congratulations!

• Peter Anderson, “Wobble” (MoonPark Review)
• Isabelle B.L, “Cords” (FlashBack Fiction)
• Sudha Balagopal, “Bitter Hot Chocolate” (Monkeybicycle)
• Abbie Barker, “Alice, Some of the Time” (Atlas and Alice)
• Matt Barrett, “The Flood” (Pithead Chapel)
• Paul Beckman, “Writer's Jeopardy” (Bending Genres)
• Jack B. Bedell, “Swamp Thing Explains How Time Passes in the Middle of Dueling Crises” (Heavy Feather Review)
• Morgan Bennett, “Chicken Dinner” (beestung)
• Andrew Bertaina, “The Historian” (No Contact)
• Brett Biebel, “Lightweight” (Cease, Cows)
• Ben Black, “A Haunting” (Wigleaf)
• Kristin Bonilla, “Shy, Solitary Animals” (Cease, Cows)
• Melissa Llanes Brownlee, “She Has Lost Something Again” (The Birdseed)
• Exodus Oktavia Brownlow, “Chicken-Girls and Chicken-Ladies and All the Possibilities of Pillowcases” (Barren Magazine)
• Julie Cadman-Kim, “Iron Hans” (Fairy Tale Review)
• Tanya Castro, “It was 1687 when an apple fell in natural motion” (Lost Balloon)
• K-Ming Chang, “Kite-Fighting” (Hayden's Ferry Review)
• Janean Cherkun, “Same Old (notes to self)” (Flash Frontier)
• Michael Todd Cohen, “Throwing Stones” (Tiny Molecules)
• Tim Craig, “Going Down” (Ellipsis Zine)
• Jenzo DuQue, “history lesson” (Passages North)
• Kate Francia, “The Dragon and It” (Apex Magazine)
• Sarah Freligh, “Rise” (Trampset)
• Sarah Freligh, “Your Life as a Bottle” (Pithead Chapel)
• Jeff Friedman, “Giver of Gifts” (B O D Y)
• Frances Gapper, “For a Widow” (Twin Pies Literary)
• Scott Garson, “Canvas” (MoonPark Review)
• Lucy Goldring, “Calling at: Pharmacy, Florist, and Off-Licence only” (100 Word Story)
• Gabrielle Griffis, “Bowerbird” (matchbook)
• Nathalie Handal, “Unfading” (Aster(ix))
• L Mari Harris, “Let's” (matchbook)
• L Mari Harris, “Girl as Music Box Ballerina” (Milk Candy Review)
• Jude Higgins, “Codes to Live By” (New Flash Fiction Review)
• Tiffany Hsieh, “Pork Fluff” (The Waking)
• Ruth Joffre, “A Girl Makes Lemonade” (HAD)
• Ruth Joffre, “A Girl Wishes on a Star” (Wigleaf)
• Mary Jones, “Everything You Ever Gave Me” (Wigleaf)
• Lauren Kardos, “Rust Belt Triptych” (The Lumiere Review)
• Kristen Zory King, “Her Kingdom Come” (Citron Review)
• Andrea Lynn Koohi, “Jump” (Emerge Literary Journal)
• ML Krishnan, “Girls Who Sat at the Back of Buses” (Trampset)
• Kathryn Kulpa, “Mother-Daughter” (Monkeybicycle)
• Kinneson Lalor, “What Grief Is” (Reflex Fiction)
• Kat Lewis, “Hip Deep in the Chesapeake” (The Offing)
• Kat Lewis, “물귀신 | Mul Gwishin” (The Offing)
• Kristen Loesch, “Tapeworm” (FlashBack Fiction)
• Amy Lyons, “After the Thrill” (Flash Frog)
• Frankie McMillan, “Taking Turns” (Flash Boulevard)
• Frankie McMillan, “Romance in the lower and upper atmosphere” (Atticus Review)
• Cortney Phillips Meriwether, “Don't Get Lost in the Dinosaur Kingdom” (matchbook)
• Michelle Morouse, “Left to their own devices they became them” (Citron Review)
• Diane Payne, “Years” (Whale Road Review)
• Susan Perabo, “Contingencies” (CRAFT)
• Meghan Phillips, “In the Town Where All the Final Girls Live” (No Contact)
• Emma Phillips, “All the Things They Couldn't Hand Back” (Flash Fiction Magazine)
• Teresa Plana, “Tokyo Pearl” (Flash Frog)
• Angela Readman, “Other Shit Rumpelstiltskin Did” (The Phare)
• Kirsten Reneau, “"What I Think King Kong Is About (Having Never Seen King Kong)” (No Contact)
• Aleyna Rentz, “Excavating” (Monkeybicycle)
• Jessica June Rowe, “Underage.” (Atlas and Alice)
• Sarah Salway, “Allsorts” (Flash Frog)
• Robert Scotellaro, “Chickens in the Parlor” (South Florida Poetry Journal)
• Marvin Shackelford, “A Tragic Misstep in Evolution” (Atlas and Alice)
• Grace Q. Song, “Inheritance” (SmokeLong Quarterly)
• Star Su, “Freezing Point” (Citron Review)
• Joanna Theiss, “Ten Amazing Facts About the Human Body” (Bending Genres)
• Bob Thurber, “Before She Was My Mother” (The Woolf)
• Jennifer Todhunter, “Riding a Bike Without Training Wheels” (Ghost Parachute)
• Jennifer Todhunter, “Fridays” (perhappened)
• Leslie Walker Trahan, “The woman who cuts my hair says she's been hearing noises in her apartment” (Passages North)
• Leslie Walker Trahan, “Where There's Smoke” (Okay Donkey)
• Susan Triemert, “Sea Monsters” (Splonk)
• Cathy Ulrich, “I Do Not Want to Live Without You” (Flash Frog)
• Olivia Wolford, “Star Swallowed” (The Ekphrastic Review)
• Yunya Yang, “You Will Never Need to Walk Again” (Janus Literary)
• Sagan Yee, “The Taste of Our Pages” (Apex Magazine)
• Becca Yenser, “None of Us” (Heavy Feather Review)
• Lacey Yong, “Salvage” (perhappened)
• Tara Isabel Zambrano, “Calla Lilies” (Salt Hill)
• Corey Zeller, “How Skinny Can I Get” (The Offing)